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Despite progress, challenges continue for Charlotte transit (opens the original)
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A drop in crime points to efforts made to improve safety and security on Charlotte’s light rail, but a new state audit shows the system still has much work to be done. The Charlotte Area Transit System, notably the light rail, has come under increasing scrutiny following the murder of Iryna Zarutska on the Blue Line last year. The resulting public outcry from her murder spurred city leaders into action, promising changes to ensure the safety of riders. While the system has made progress — a nota
Moore Co. DSS settles federal lawsuit with family of children with disabilities (opens the original)
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Moore County is paying more than $50,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over allegations of unnecessary institutionalization of two children by the county’s Department of Social Services, even though the county denies any wrongdoing. The settlement, signed by both parties in May, is the latest development in the case following claims of unnecessary institutionalization of two siblings with disabilities — referred to as J.S. and S.S. in court filings — after their mother, Rumina Slazas, was hospital
NC to withhold struggling town's sales tax distribution (opens the original)
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With four audits still missing, the town of Littleton faces its sales tax distributions being held back after a failed appeal to the North Carolina Local Government Commission at its latest meeting on Tuesday. The town previously told the LGC that it was aiming to finish the 2022 audit by this summer and the 2023 audit by the end of the year or early next year, Carolina Public Press reported earlier. Beverly Stroud, an accountant assisting the town, told commissioners on Tuesday that the 2022 au
Rethinking involuntary commitment in NC while trying not to break the system (opens the original)
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New studies on ways to improve involuntary commitment in North Carolina are the focus of state legislation signed into law last month. One pilot program has been making waves between the state’s jails and hospitals. Established in the wake of the tragic killing of Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail, HB 1104 was signed into law by Gov. Josh Stein on July 6, aiming to improve the state’s involuntary commitment process and “enhance public safety.” The new law introduces multiple studies to
Lags in NC landfill site investigations by underfunded DEQ program pose risk to public health, audit says (opens the original)
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A North Carolina audit released last month reveals a lack of progress in a program meant to investigate pre-regulatory landfills that could put public health at risk. The NC Department of Environmental Quality’s Pre-Regulatory Landfill Program was established in 2007 to investigate landfill sites that operated without regulatory oversight before Jan. 1, 1983. North Carolina currently has 688 total old landfill sites that fall into this category. Though the program has been around for almost 20 y
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